The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-10-07
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest in q
CONDENSED Form

Do>fu VI &tnar fiitr Drra VI tatit<tu
at Medford.
A black bear weighing 400 pounds
was killed near Astoria.
The receipts OF the State Fair foot
up TO between Bl4 900 and $4,000
AT Grants Pass about 200 pupils are
In attendance at the public schools.
The Bandon Recorder has suspended
publication until the arrival OF an
editor.
The corner stone OF the new Masonic
hall ut Pendleton was laid by the
Grand Lodge.
A majority of the farmers around
Prinevilie are sowing wheat instead OF
rye this fall for hay.
Adolph Dauth took dose OF Rough
on Rats with suicidal intent, and
died in Portland hotel.
A large school building is being
erected mt Newport. IL will be sixty
feet long and thirty-six feet wide
Jas. Johnson's barn, near Carlton,
was burned by tramps with all its con
tents, including several horses; loss,
$1,000.
Linkyille is to have a court house to
cost " 800, which, when completed,
win be the mort costly building i'm the
county.
Aaron Broyles, q pioneer farmer of
Columbia county, was aecidently shot
and killed BY his grandson near st.
Helens.
A. Woods sawmill, near Hood river,
was burned with its contents The
loss was SIS 900, with but 5000 i'm
surance.
j. e. Logan, who has ranch on
the Claskanine, killed q catamonnt
near his house, measuring seven feet
eleven inches.
Charles Manciet, aged 20, was shot
and instantly killed by . drunken
man named VIM. Dillon, in the Argo-
nsut saloon, Portland.
Two Swiss families have bought go
acres OF the Starkweather farm near
Oswego, for s11 900, and will place it
in the highest state of cultivation
r. E. Maple, the murderer OF ID. /.
Corker, at Lafayette, has been re-
sentenced 10 hang. The death viii be
fixed by the judge in the death war
rant.
There are several cases OF diphtheria
at Roseburg. Two deaths from the
dreadful disease have occurred, and il
is feared several others viii not re-
cover.
Jason Wheeler, Indian Agent at the
Warm Springs reservation, has ten.
dered his resignation ON account OF q
dispute between him and settlers over
a boundary line.
DIR. s. w. Mcdowell, who has made
himself famous by contesting the elec
ton OF various congressman, judges
etc, was committed to the insane asy-
lum from Salem.
An application has been made for q
postoffice at the North Fork bridge
over the John Day river, near the line
between Umatilla and GRAFT counties
The new postofice viii be named Dor
man. and viii be in Umatilla county
The State Press Association meet.
at Albany ON October Il J. B. Fithian
of the Portland World, will deliver the
annual address, and Sam Simpson an
original poem. Others will deliver
short addresses. Ii promises TO be an
interesting event.
The Portland Board of Trade com
mittee has raised 81, 800 for the pur
pose of sluicing out st. Helens ant
Walkers Island bars. The o. X. & N
Co. subscribed nearly one-half ths
amount. The steamer Walla Walls
viii be put TO work at once.
/ A. w. Mcdonald, a telegraph op
orator, fell into the river at the foot o
d street, Portland, and was drowned
Hugh Brady, 1ongshoreman who re
covered the body, has rescued or re
covered fifty persons from the rive
during his residence OF several years il
Portland.
The running expenses of Morrow
county for the past year were abou
| $4,000. The Indebtedness TO Una
Il tilla county was paid last year in scrip
upon which s per cent. is being paid
This amounted to $500. The as
sessor found 81. .100, 900 of taxable prop
erty in Morrow county this year, beinl
nearly $500 600 more than last.
i The United States mail on route Nc
41,212, from Baker City to Canyon
City, was robbed by two masked high
waymen. Three locked pouches wer
taken, also money and a watch from
the passengers. The point where tn
robbery took place was twenty-five
miles southwest of Auburn. Th
! pouches taken have not yet been re
covered.
Last fall car on the narrow gaug
went over the incline at Fulquart
landing into the Willamette river
where it remained until last winter
when the floods of the Willamette LITE
it out of the mud and carried it owe
the falls at Oregon City. Here steam
boat fastened to it and towed 1t to a.
incline at Oregon City. where il wa
got out, not much the worse for ii
swim down the river.
About a third of the whole State {
( Oregon yet remains unsurveyed, an
i there is only $1,000 appropriated fo
: surveying public land in this state thi
! year. Tho surveys this year will CON
: prise three fractional townships nes
q Burns, Grant county, in all about
miles. Near Bandon, Coos count,
about Is miles will be run to clos
some unfinished work Near Ghetto,
+ Curry county, It's miles will be done
: near Onion Peak, Clatsop county, IL
u miles; about Fall creek, Lane count.
:, 81 miles, and near Florence. Lar
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